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“When people are less-informed, the unscrupulous ones thrive.” I would also like to add the Philippines has set up a very complicated web of confusion when it comes to property transfer, sales, laws, or enforcement of the rules. Those with proper connections have no loopholes to jum...
I have included these countries in my Southeast Asia totals, plus Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, and (to the extent I could find the data), amounts for a few other small countries included in the grouping used by the United Nations in its “Southeast Asia” grouping. While...
Despite pervasive challenges to regulate UPF consumption in the face of contemporary corporate power dynamics, a small precedent of success has been set by a handful of countries in the adoption of UPF regulatory policies. Most of these countries are in Latin America, where UPF consumption has gro...
world’s top recipients of remittances. The World Bank estimates thatremittances to Mexico reached $61.1 billion USDin 2022. This has led to the development of specialised payment channels and services to facilitate these transactions, similar to economies such as those in the Philippines or India....
The UK, in particular, was an early incubator for challenger bank activity compared to other regions, as a result of progressive regulations enacted to promote competition and break up monopolies. However, more recently, challenger banks have appeared in other regions around the world, from Australi...
This paper assesses the role shipping and logistics foreign direct investment (FDI) plays in developing country export performance, exemplified by the case of the large multinational corporation (MNC) Maersk’s investments in Vietnam. The paper aims to g
How Trade Policy Is Enacted: Globally, Regionally, and Nationally These public policy arguments about how nations should react to globalization and trade are fought out at several levels: at the global level through the World Trade Organization and through regional trade agreements between pairs or ...
We now understand that institutions come in two forms – formal (e.g., enacted rules, laws, constitutions, regulations, etc.) and informal (e.g., behavioral norms, self-imposed codes of conduct, cultural practices, etc.) – which together define the “rules of the game” in a society ...
(Longhofer,Citation1995). Several countries (e.g. the U.S.) have enacted laws (the Fair Housing Act and the Equal Credit Opportunity Act) to prohibit mortgage lending discrimination. However, instead of being denied credit, ethnic minorities have become targets for financial exploitation in a ...